Unfiltered with Sarah Jane Foster
Oct 5, 2026 · 1 hr 14 min · 12 segments
What does it really take to build a €500 million business, and what happens when everything you've spent decades building is suddenly destroyed? In this episode of Unfiltered, Sarah Jane Foster sits…
So C&D didn't just grow as a company, it actually transformed Edgeworthstown.
You know what? You couldn't go anywhere in Edgeworthstown without meeting somebody that worked in C&D.
And one of the early things I discovered was, in C&D, that if you fell out with somebody, the chances are you'd fallen out with half the workforce, um, because they were either brothers, sisters, or somehow, somehow related.
So you'd have to be very choosy about the battles that you would pick, so, um-
... and then when it had come to the summer, you know, half the w- uh, certainly a, a lot of the male workforce would disappear because of the small farms, and they'd be off making the hay.
And you'd wonder why Frank Lally didn't show up today, and, uh, you know, but Frank had to take in the hay.
You know, when you start running a business in a rural community like that, um, you know, there are some of the considerations that I think [laughs] when you run businesses in the city and that-
... you don't have to think about, or certainly you didn't have to think about back then.
Um, so yeah, it was, but, you know, for, for Edgeworthstown, it was clearly, it, it is and was a big employer.
And, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's fantastic that, uh, C&D continues to be headquartered, uh, out of Edgeworthstown, and that it's, you know, it's one of its main hubs of production.
And I'm delighted that it's there, and it's served generations of families in Edgeworthstown.
You know, so yeah, there's been a lot of families through it, our own in- our own included.
Um, so it has all s- served us all well, and I hope it does for generations to come, yeah.
So C&D didn't just grow as a company, it actually transformed Edgeworthstown.
You know what? You couldn't go anywhere in Edgeworthstown without meeting somebody that worked in C&D.
And one of the early things I discovered was, in C&D, that if you fell out with somebody, the chances are you'd fallen out with half the workforce, um, because they were either brothers, sisters, or somehow, somehow related.
So you'd have to be very choosy about the battles that you would pick, so, um-
... and then when it had come to the summer, you know, half the w- uh, certainly a, a lot of the male workforce would disappear because of the small farms, and they'd be off making the hay.
And you'd wonder why Frank Lally didn't show up today, and, uh, you know, but Frank had to take in the hay.
You know, when you start running a business in a rural community like that, um, you know, there are some of the considerations that I think [laughs] when you run businesses in the city and that-
... you don't have to think about, or certainly you didn't have to think about back then.
Um, so yeah, it was, but, you know, for, for Edgeworthstown, it was clearly, it, it is and was a big employer.
And, um, yeah, it's, it's, it's fantastic that, uh, C&D continues to be headquartered, uh, out of Edgeworthstown, and that it's, you know, it's one of its main hubs of production.
And I'm delighted that it's there, and it's served generations of families in Edgeworthstown.
You know, so yeah, there's been a lot of families through it, our own in- our own included.
Um, so it has all s- served us all well, and I hope it does for generations to come, yeah.
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